Publications

Fiction




"The day a Hyena Crossed The River"  in Five Points, Vol. 22, No. 2, Winter 2024. Print. 


"The Train"  in Tupelo Quarterly, The TQ24 Prose Open Prize, August 2021. Finalist. 


"The Memory of Blood" in Image, Summer 2021. Issue 109. Print.


"The Day We Watched the Sun" in J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Spring 2021. Print.


"Yamaha Tx 500" in TriQuarterly, Winter 2021.


"Mercury Clock" in Epiphany Magazine, December 2020.


"Water" in Chiron Review, Winter 2020. Print.


"The Heavy One" in Failbetter, Oct 2020. (nominated for Pushcart)


"Storm" In The Garden, Issue 003.


"The House of a Thousand Voices" in Prairie Schooner, fall 2020.


"Twenty Thousand Cedis" in Scoundrel Time, January 2020. (nominated for Pushcart)


"The Outsider" in The American Magazine, January 2020.


"Complicated Blues" in  Litro Magazine - Litro U.S. - Desire Issue, July 2019.  Print.   Read here


"Angels don’t have Wings" in Chicago Quarterly Review, October 2018. Print.


"The Gospel According to Arthur" in Cosmonauts Avenue, February 2018.


"When Men become gods" in Burrow Press - Fantastic Floridas, February, 2018(nominated for Pushcart)


"The Life of Abdul Baari" in The Opiate Magazine, January 2018. Print.


"The Curator's Tale" in Evergreen Review, August 2017.


"These Are Places God Wouldn’t Go" in Numéro Cinq, August  2017.


"The Story of Stories" in Apogee Journal, June  2017. Print.


"The Time Traveler" in Ninth Letter Online, Winter 2017 Special Southern Writers Web Edition. January  2017.


"Reverie of the Absurd" in Identity Theory, March 2017.


"The Known and the Unknown" in The Fanzine. January 2017.


"She Knew" in Litro Magazine. July 2016.



Poem


"Poems" in Belletrist Magazine, June 2017. Print.


"Love Imagination" in Souvenir Lit Journal. January 2017.


"How to die" in Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine. October 2016.


"The Painting" in Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, November 2016.


"Lazarus" in Off the Coast. August, 2016.


"Apparition" in Synchronized Chaos. June, 2016.


"The Ship Love" in The Bombay Review: International Anthology of Short Fiction & Poetry, 2016.





Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, 2025.


Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, 2022.


Semi-finalist for the inaugural Jesmyn Ward Prize, 2022.


The TQ24 Prose Open Prize finalist for "The Train", 2021.


Winner of the 4th Annual Scoundrel Time Editors’ Choice Award in Fiction for “Twenty Thousand Cedis”, 2021.


Boston Review Aura Estrada Short Story Contest semifinalist for "Najaba River", 2020.


Glimmer Train's Fiction Open honorable mention for "Cuba",August 2019.


2019 Writer-In-Residenceat Craigarden.


2018 Kimbilio Fellow.


Glimmer Train's Fiction Open honorable mention for "Let Me Paint You a Picture", August 2016.